"...watching over as if it were a portrait on a great banner, rippling gently against a cerulean sky. his eyes were even bluer than that celestial backdrop."

"Adam disobeyed and ate the appled, gobbled up the fruit of knowledge, so God decided to let him know all sorts of things, both light and dark. Adam's children learnt to hunt, farm, thwart the winter and cook their food with fire, make tools, and build shelters. And God, wanted to give them a well-rounded education, let them learn, oh, maybe a million ways to suffer and die. He encouraged them to learn language, reading and writing, biology, chemistry, physics, the secrets of the genetic code. And He taught them the exquisite horrors of brain tumours, muscular dystrophy, bubonic plague, cancer run amok in their bodies. You wanted knowledge, God was happy to oblige, He was an enthusiastic teacher, a demon for knowledge, piling it on in such weight and exotic detail that sometimes you feels you were going to be crushed under it." -----Cold Fire by Dean Koontz